Ulrich Mühe
Friedrich Hans Ulrich Mühe (20 June 1953 – 22 July 2007) was a German film, television and theatre actor. He played the role of Hauptmann (Captain) Gerd Wiesler in the Oscar-winning film Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others, 2006), for which he received the award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role, Gold, at Germany's most prestigious film awards, the Deutscher Filmpreis (German Film Awards); and the Best Actor Award at the 2006 European Film Awards. Curiously, events in Mühe's life were mirrored by the plot of the film, as he allegedly discovered in a Stasi file compiled on him that he had been under surveillance by his second wife, Jenny Gröllmann. Gröllmann denied this, and after an acrimonious and highly-publicized court case she succeeded in obtaining an injunction to prevent Mühe from repeating the allegation in a book. After leaving school, Mühe was employed as a construction worker and a border guard at the Berlin Wall. He then turned to acting, and from the late 1970s into the 1980s appeared in numerous plays, becoming a star of the Deutsches Theater in East Berlin. He was active in politics and denounced Communist rule in East Germany in a memorable address at the Alexanderplatz demonstration on 4 November 1989 shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall. After German reunification he continued to appear in a large number of films, television programmes and theatre productions. In Germany he was particularly known for playing the lead role of Dr. Robert Kolmaar in the long-running forensic crime series Der letzte Zeuge (The Last Witness, 1998–2007). Description above from the Wikipedia article Ulrich Mühe, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
The Lives of Others
as Gerd WieslerIn 1984 East Berlin, an agent of the Stasi secret police, conducting surveillance on a writer...
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Funny Games
as GeorgTwo psychotic young men take a mother, father, and son hostage in their vacation cabin and force...
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My Führer
as Prof. Adolf Israel GrünbaumHitler no longer believes in himself, and can barely see himself as an equal to even his sheep...
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Amen.
as SS-ArztKurt Gerstein—a member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS—is horrified by what he...
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Benny's Video
as Georg, Benny's FatherA 14-year-old video enthusiast obsessed with violent films decides to make one of his own and...
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The Castle
as KMichael Haneke's adaptation of Franz Kafka's unfinished novel Das Schloss. K arrives in a remote...
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Schtonk!
as Dr. WielandSchtonk! is a farce of the actual events of 1983, when Germany's Stern magazine published, with...
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The Last U-Boat
as Gerber - KommandantNear the end of WWII a lone U-Boat is sent from Germany to Japan carrying plutonium needed for a...
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Hamlet_X
as Claudius MüllerA great mosaic, a labyrinth of scenes, dialogue splinters, interviews, portraits of people...
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Straight Shooter
as Markus PauflerAfter his daughter died of cancer, former French foreign legionnaire "Straight Shooter" alias...
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Spider's Web
as Theodor LohseUlrich Mühe plays a German businessman who was born completely without scruples. This makes him...
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Snowland
as KnövelBased on the novel Hohaj by Elisabeth Rynell, it depicts the devastation felt by Elizabeth, a...
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Rudy, the Racing Pig
as Dr. Heinrich GützkowFlat-dwelling urban family win a pig in a raffle, and decide to keep it. They lose their flat...
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Peer Gynt
as Der KnopfgiesserYoung Peer Gynt returns home once again after unsuccessfully looking for work. His mother...
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Alles Samba
as Gerd WegenerArt expert Katharina Diezmann is out of the blue, when one day the little Brazilian Marcia is...
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Spy Sorge
as Eugen OttA foreign spy using the Sorge alias is assigned to Tokyo the capital of Japan just prior to the...
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Hälfte des Lebens
as Friedrich HölderlinThis tragic love story relates ten decisive years in the life of the great Romantic poet...
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Night Time
as EschbachThomas Krömer follows the traces of a brutal murder in werewolf-manner out of personal interest....
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The Woman and the Stranger
as RevolutionärBased on a switched identity, in circumstances that are found in real life as well as fiction,...
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The Blue One
as Karl 'Kalle' KaminskiIn this German political drama, an ex-Stasi agent encounters an old friend whom he may have...
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Little Angel
as KommissarRamona lives her lonely life in Berlin working in a lipstick factory. One day she accidentally...
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Nemesis
as RobertClaire and Robert spend most of their time in a house they own in the beautiful and remote...
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Jugend ohne Gott
as LehrerA teacher at a German high-school in the nineteen thirties has issues with his students who seem...
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Einfach raus
as Manfred Reimann"Einfach raus!" is the wish that 18-year-old Andreas has had for a long time. Simply get out of...
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Longing
as SieghartEna lives on a remote farmstead. One stormy night, hydraulic engineer Sieghart appears at her...
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Olle Henry
as Junger Mann1945. Peace still bears the traces of war everywhere. There meet the animated girl Xenia and the...
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Späte Ankunft
as Raoul FürstenauIn 1896 the Berlin noble doctor Dr. Wilhelm Holtfreter takes over his well-to-do wife Mathilde...
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Deadly Silence
as Christian PlacheA gay man's return to his family in East Germany begins a series of tragic events.
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Jedermann Remixed
as Devil (archive footage)Based on archive holdings from nine decades, director Hannes Rossacher has created a complete...
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Rider of the Flames
as Jacob GontardFeuerreiter is an elegant period drama that begins in Frankfurt in 1796. Through his friend,...
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Der Ausländer
as uncreditedDocumentary by Thomas Heise filmed in East Berlin in 1987/88.
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Scene of the Crime
as Peter FuchsTatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of...
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Scene of the Crime
as Friedel HebbelTatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of...
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Polizeiruf 110
as KegelPolizeiruf 110 is a long-running German language detective television series. The first episode...
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Bambi Awards
as SelfThe Bambi, often called the Bambi Award and stylised as BAMBI, is a German award presented...
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Siska
as Erich BrannerSiska is a German television series created by Herbert Reinecker and Helmut Ringelmann and...
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Rosa Roth
as uncreditedRosa Roth is a German television series.
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Through the Night with...
as SelfDurch die Nacht mit … is a German documentary film television series produced by ZDF for...
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